Steamship "Turret Chief"

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Title: Steamship "Turret Chief"
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Ships - Sailing Ships, Accidents - Marine Accidents - Shipwrecks,
Condition: Good
Description: Steamship "Turret Chief" wrecked Nov. 9, 1913 man standing on the ship. [A photo of a man standing on the deck of a steamship. The ship appears to be in port or stranded - a large number of trees are in the background.]
Source of Description: Negative notebook database [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Tony Vranesich
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 25.1 cm x 20.6 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MTU Neg 01464
Collection Name: MTU Photograph Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• Nov. 9th 1913
1/1/2009 11:50:28 AM by Anonymous
• Name:Robert Lawrence
MTU Class of:1997
Just read about this ship in a book about the Edmund Fitzgerald. It wrecked along the shore about 5 miles from Copper Harbor. Crew was fortunate to be rescued before exposure overtook them. Vessel was salvaged, used in WWI, but sadly ended up sinking in a storm a few miles offshore from Muskegon.
6/30/2016 7:55:44 AM by Anonymous
• My Great Grandfather was on this ship when it ran aground. The story I've been told by my Grandmother who was born in 1917 was that after the storm the ship was assumed lost and my Great Grandmother was called somewhere to identify the body they thought was my Great Grandfather. She told them it wasn't him. Two weeks later he walked in the door of their house in Southern Ontario. It turned out they used a chair and some rope as a makeshift zip line to get to shore. Their rescue came from local natives who brought them to safety. It took two weeks, but eventually he made it home.
9/24/2016 ; 9:45:38AM by Anonymous